Aaron contacted me a few years ago, enthusiastic about a website I’d put
> together featuring a worker-run newspaper from the 1840s. At the time the
> site was unfinished and long neglected: so neglected, in fact, that a few
> days after his message, it was taken down because I hadn’t paid the hosting
> company. Which I learned about from Aaron, who sent me this on the day the
> site went offline:
>
> “Hey, Rajeev – what can I do to get voiceofindustry back online? I tried
> asking GoDaddy if I could pay your hosting fee, but they said not without
> your phone pin.”
>
> So, before contacting me about the site being down, he had already tried
> to get it back up, *at his own expense*. This level of kindness and
> support was typical of Aaron, who not only encouraged me to resume the
> project, but played a major role in its completion: when the original
> issues of the paper were lost, he helped recover them; when I had trouble
> finding articles that were incorrectly cited, he read through the paper to
> help locate them. He helped fix technical problems on the original site,
> and suggested developers to work with when we decided to redesign it last
> year. When the project was finally done, he was excited about the new
> design, and sad that he couldn’t make it to the launch event (though of
> course, he helped get the word out for it).
>
> All of this was, of course, a tiny corner of the universe that was Aaron’s
> activism. But his interest and support helped me to recover my own interest
> in justice issues, and for that I will remain grateful. I’m sad that I
> never got to thank him in person.
>
> Thank you, Aaron Swartz.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>wrote:
> Was he active on this list?
>>
>
> He posted once:
>
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/**2006/2006-November/022491.html<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2006/2006-November/022491.html>
>
> [ archive plug:
> http://search.lbo-talk.org/**search/swish.cgi?query=swartz&**
> metaname=author<http://search.lbo-talk.org/search/swish.cgi?query=swartz&metaname=author>]
>
> No one responded to it, although it's an unusual sort of post for
> lbo-talk: one that makes a simple point well and has no dangling sharp
> edges that the usual suspects can pounce upon and drag the thread into the
> ditch with.
>
> /jordan
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